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  • Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Beyond the Naked Eye: Empirical Study of How People Perceive, Detect, and Respond to AI-Manipulated Videos

Kaniz Fatima, Y. Kelly Wu, Ersin Uzun

  • 2026-02-26
  • Proquest

DeFaking Deepfakes: Designing and Evaluating AI-Powered Digital Media Verification Tools for Journalists

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi

  • 2025-12-12
  • Submitted

Constructing the Visual Media Forensics Ontology: A Systematic Review and Expert-Refined Framework

Y. Kelly Wu, Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Candice R. Gerstner, Ersin Uzun, Matthew Wright

  • 2025-12-15
  • PROMISE–PROMoting AI’s Safe usage for Elections

Verification AI in the Newsroom: A Cross-Cultural Study of Journalists’ Use of Deepfake Detection Tools

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Y Kelly Wu, Matthew Wright

  • 2025-10-01
  • Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    • A+ tier

Understanding and Empowering Intelligence Analysts: User-Centered Design for Deepfake Detection Tools

Y. Kelly Wu, Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Candice R. Gerstner, Matthew Wright

  • 2025-04-26
  • Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    • A+ tier

Dungeons & Deepfakes: Understanding: Using Scenario-based role-play to study journalists’ behavior towards using AI-based verification tools for video content

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Y Kelly Wu, Andrea Hickerson, Matthew Wright

  • 2024-05-11
  • The Conversation

Voice Deepfakes are Calling – Here’s What They are and How to Avoid Getting Scammed

Christopher Schwartz, Matthew Wright

  • 2023-03-17
  • Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Security Implications of Deepfakes and Cheapfakes

Evaluating Robustness of Sequence-based Deepfake Detector Models by Adversarial Perturbation

Shaikh Akib Shahriyar, Matthew Wright

  • 2022-05-30
  • British Machine Vision Conference

Gradient Frequency Modulation for Visually Explaining Video Understanding Models

Xinmiao Lin, Wentao Bao, Matthew Wright, Yu Kong

  • 2021-11-23
  • IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop

Poster: Evaluating Robustness of Sequence-based Deepfake Detector Models by Adversarial Perturbation

Shaikh Akib Shahriyar, Matthew Wright

  • 2021-10-22
  • IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop

Poster: Leveraging edges and optical flow on faces for deepfake detection

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Akash Chintha, Aishwarya Rao, Kartavya M Bhatt, Matthew Wright, Raymond Ptucha

  • 2021-10-22
  • The Conversation

In a Battle of AI Versus AI, Researchers are Preparing for the Coming Wave of Deepfake Propaganda

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Matthew Wright

  • 2020-10-09
  • IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)

Leveraging edges and optical flow on faces for deepfake detection

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Akash Chintha, Aishwarya Rao, Kartavya M Bhatt, Matthew Wright, Raymond Ptucha

  • 2020-09-28
  • Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)

DeFaking Deepfakes: Understanding Journalists’ Needs for Deepfake Detection

Saniat J. Sohrawardi, Sovantharith Seng, Akash Chintha, Bao Thai, Raymond Ptucha, Matthew Wright

  • 2020-08-09
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Recurrent Convolutional Structures for Audio Spoof and Video Deepfake Detection

Akash Chintha, Bao Thai, Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Kartavya Bhatt, Andrea Hickerson, Matthew Wright

  • 2020-08-05
  • Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Poster: Towards Robust Open-World Detection of Deepfakes

Saniat Javid Sohrawardi, Akash Chintha, Bao Thai, Sovantharith Seng, Andrea Hickerson, Raymond Ptucha, Matthew Wright

  • 2019-11-11
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